Wow, Kasie Hunt is leaving MSNBC.

[imanamerican63]

She made the announcement this morning on her show “Way Too Early”. She wasn’t one of my favorite anchors, but she did her job fairly well. Sad to see she is leaving.

Story from People Magazine

[Funtatlaguy]

1. Going where?

[Siwsan]

2. CNN

UPDATED, with details on Hunt’s move to CNN: MSNBC host and NBC News correspondent Kasie Hunt announced her departure at the end of Way Too Early on Friday, promising that she would announce her next move “in the next few weeks.”

Hunt plans to join CNN, according to a source familiar with her plans. Variety, which first reported the move, also reported that she would focus largely on streaming content as the network develops a streaming service, with reports that it will be called CNN+.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/kasie-hunt-departs-nbc-news-and-msnbc-for-cnn/ar-AAMdZG8

[imanamerican63]

3. She didn't say.

She was going to announce it next week, according to the People Mag story.

[JohnSJ]

4. I suspect she wasn't to happy with the early hours

[calimary]

5. Maybe she wanted a more normal schedule?

Those "Way Too Early" hours had to be killer, besides putting her on an off-normal clock compared to the rest of the normal population.

I used to work morning drive. The hours, ON AIR, started at 6am. But you did NOT just breeze in from parking your car and go straight to the microphone. Yeah, my first newscast was at 6am. But I had to prepare it first. Nobody was just writing it and handing it to me. So that meant I had to write it, which took time. And that meant I had to be there early enough to READ IN so I knew what was going on and therefore, WHAT to write about. And THAT meant getting there AT LEAST an hour ahead of time, although I preferred a little more than that - instead of 5am, arriving no later than 4:30am. Cuz I also had to clear the wires and check all the incoming news and developments that were already happening on the East Coast (like Washington DC) three hours ahead of us on the West Coast.

And the result was, I was on a clock that put me in conflict with things like - being awake enough for DINNER. At the normal time people eat dinner - 6pm or thereabouts. I'd get home sometime in the early afternoon (after I'd wrapped up the noon news). And I had to try to stay awake all afternoon so I could doze off to sleep preferably before 9pm, so I'd actually GET some sleep! The alarm would go off between 3 and 3:30am. Sometimes I'd wind up standing in the shower, leaned up against the shower wall and letting the water pelt me for sometimes a half hour trying to make sure I was awake at that hour. I later described my husband as "the lump in the bed." Because he remained asleep while I got up, showered, dressed, and grabbed the car keys. Every morning. Five days a week. Literally for YEARS.

Morning drive was the roughest shift. But it was also the most coveted slot on the clock. Morning drive was where all the big DJ talent was - Rick Dees, Charlie Tuna, all of 'em, and if you did the news on their show, you had a pretty doggone high-profile showcase every morning, too.